Being Accountable

This post was inspired by the hilarious and informative series Erin (ok, Sallie & Perkins) have over at Love, Fun & Football. Sure, theirs is focused on finances but after re-reading a years worth of posts I suddenly had an idea to cure my lack of content lately. 

They have been working steadily over the past year to pay down student debt, and they're doing it, in part by being accountable both on paper and on the blog. Tracking purchases and budgeting, but accepting sometimes things don't go exactly as planned. 

In a year they have paid down over half of their debt, read all about their amazing success here.
Luckily Jay & I have very little in student debt, a story I might tell another time, so that's not what I wanted to talk about. I was inspired by the way Sallie & Perkins kept themselves accountable and I want to apply it to something different. 

Eating. 

After the wedding Jay & I started working really hard towards cleaner eating and just being more mindful of what we were putting into our bodies. For two months we tracked everything we ate and the exercise we did that day, every day. Then we stopped. 

Our goal wasn't weight loss as much as just working on being healthy. Sure, there were perks of weight loss- but we really just wanted to get healthy. 

 We had been using an App to track our eating/exercise and when we stopped I thought I could keep being accountable without the App so I just stopped recording daily. The first couple of weeks 'winging it' weren't so bad, but now a month after stopping I have to admit in the last week I've eaten two bags of cheezies, a bag of chips, two bags of gummy worms and a bag of bridge mixture. Oh, and a huge bowl of ice cream every night and cake, cupcakes and Oreos at work. It was a fun week! 

Self control around the kitchen I just don't have. 

It's a new week and I'm ready to start fresh and make better choices. I mean looking at that list of crap that I ate in just a week I am ashamed and worried. I mean the occasional treat is one thing, but so much so often can't be good. I mean what are gummy worms and cheezies even made of? I'm sure I don't want to know. 

But I do want to try harder. 

So, this morning I got out the measuring scoop and had an appropriate serving of cereal and supplemented it with some fruit! For lunch, I'm skipping the white rice and having a delicious salad. Most importantly, for the time being, I'm going to enter all the information into my trusty App and hopefully start taking better care of myself again. 

I need to. 

When I was sticking with the App, I felt better. Jay and I were walking every night, eating tons of vegetables and drinking water by the jug. I want to catch that feeling again. 

I'm not sure if or how often I'll update on how it's going but I feel better just putting the idea out there. Hopefully now that it's out in the world I'll be more motivated to keep pushing. 

Thanks again Erin for the inspiration! Linking up with the lovely Meg for Mingle Monday!

Any advice for a recently-reformed candy and cheezie addict? 

Keep Smiling :)